Author: George Beard and Harold Hutchins (pen names for Dav Pilkey)
Description: George and Harold get in trouble for riding their skateboards over ketchup packets in the gym, and the principal punishes them by making them write a 100 page essay without using Captain Underpants. The result of an essay creating a new superhero Super Diaper Baby, which angers the principal again.
Genre: Fiction
Questionable Situations: Complaints of this book include insensitivity, encouraging children to show disrespect toward adults, and it is age inappropriate. It was #99 on the American Library Association List of Banned Books 2000-2009.
Public Opinion: This book is loved by younger children for its off-color potty humor-literally. According to Common Sense Media, "Pilkey seems to have a direct line to the kid sense of humor, and his drawings are adorable and entertaining."
History of Censhorship: This series has been challenged and removed from some school library shelves for its use of inappropriate language and references to bodily waste.
Author: George Beard and Harold Hutchins (pen names for Dav Pilkey)
Description: George and Harold get in trouble for riding their skateboards over ketchup packets in the gym, and the principal punishes them by making them write a 100 page essay without using Captain Underpants. The result of an essay creating a new superhero Super Diaper Baby, which angers the principal again.
Genre: Fiction
Questionable Situations: Complaints of this book include insensitivity, encouraging children to show disrespect toward adults, and it is age inappropriate. It was #99 on the American Library Association List of Banned Books 2000-2009.
Public Opinion: This book is loved by younger children for its off-color potty humor-literally. According to Common Sense Media, "Pilkey seems to have a direct line to the kid sense of humor, and his drawings are adorable and entertaining."
History of Censhorship: This series has been challenged and removed from some school library shelves for its use of inappropriate language and references to bodily waste.
Developmental Age: Grades 3-5